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A little bit of support...

I have the Vodafone Smart Tab 3, that it's the Lenovo A3000. The difference is that it has 1 sim (it's not a dual sim).

I have followed instructions reported here

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=38337401&postcount=5

and I was able to go tillt the end.

The system isn’t rooted, it has the stock Vodafone ROM and MTKDROIDTOOLS can’t root it (the log created during the root process reports

[-] Failure.

ATTENZIONE! Sono possibili richieste di conferma sullo schermo del dispositivo!

--- ERRORE : SU non accessibile

--- Attraverso CWM è possibile ottenere root su questo dispositivo! Guarda le URL :

http://forum.china-iphone.ru/viewtopic.php?p=502084#p502084

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=38337401&postcount=5

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I have some questions. If there is someone so kindly to give me an answer... thanks thanks thanks

1) as it's reported in picture attached "mtk_devicer_info_b.bmp", the hardware is a MT6589 even if the system tells MT8389.

Well, is there some considerations/issues about this?

2) the system has 1 partition (in this thread http://xdaforums.com/lenovo-a3000/development/rom-lenovo-ideatab-a3000-h-call-t2441135 it’s called partition fused).

I’m ok if in step 4 I report the address related to the cache block (in my case 0x76780000)?

Attached the scatter file “MT6589_Android_scatter_emmc.txt” created in step 1, and if it’s useful the screen shot of memory section “Screenshot_memory.png” and the map block info “mtk_block_map.bmp”

3) during step 7, MTKDROITOLLS reports something about the PMT table, see below (or the log “README_REPORT_MTKDROID.TXT” attached). I have to be worried about?

--- scatter é stato salvato nel file:

C:\Documents and Settings\ler.zinA\Desktop\a3000\MtkDroidTools\backups\Vodafone-Smart-Tab-III-7_130813_ForFlashtoolFromReadBack_140426-193755\MT6589_Android_scatter_emmc.txtcopia completata

-- preloader.bin ...è stato copiato ... cut OK

-- MBR ...è stato copiato

-- EBR1 ...è stato copiato

-- pmt ...è stato copiato

- PMT tables found

- PMT tables OK, 22 blocks found

--- Il Kernel Block Map su PMT non corrisponde!

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BlockName Offset

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Kernel: __NODL_FAC 0x0000000004780000

PMT: FAC

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--- scatter from PMTé stato salvato nel file:

C:\Documents and Settings\ler.zinA\Desktop\a3000\MtkDroidTools\backups\Vodafone-Smart-Tab-III-7_130813_ForFlashtoolFromReadBack_140426-193755\MT6589_Android_scatter_emmc_PMT.txt

- Usa questo se SP FlashTool da errori come 8038 o 4050

-- pro_info ...è stato copiato

-- nvram.bin ...è stato copiato

-- protect_f ...è stato copiato

-- protect_s ...è stato copiato

-- seccfg ...è stato copiato

-- uboot.bin ...è stato copiato

-- boot.img ...è stato copiato

- Boot kernel version =3.4.5

4) in step 7 I let the application to create the CWM recovery.

Can I assume the “factory_NONmodified_recovery.img” is the stock recovery and the “Vodafone-Smart-Tab-III-7_130813__recovery_140426-193755.img” is the CWM modified (and working) recovery?

5) What is the “Vodafone-Smart-Tab-III-7_130813__boot_patched_140426-193755.img”? I mean, what’s the difference from the “boot.img”?

xx) Attached also the log of MTKDROIDTOOLS